My Audience

I have researched and thought about the type of audience my drama short film would attract. I have come to a conclusion that my audience would be wiling to watch and appeal to the heightened emotions that consists in the short film. I researched why my target audience like to watch drama films and the response I got was; "I want to get all weepy over something, I’ll look at real life instead of someone’s idealised version of it." This is the ideal audience for my short film as it is about an emotional journey of a young girl who fights through the emotional pain and flashbacks of her past, therefore, it is good that people want to see real life situations rather than an idealised perspective of someone or their life. I also want my target audience to prefer to watch something different, not something that you can predict the end before it has even happened. My short film has a plot twist right at the end, on which here I have incorporated Todorov's narrative theory, here I broke the conventional narrative and ended it with disequilibrium where there is a disruption of the equilibrium; the structure. I am hoping that this keeps my audience engaged and want them to watch it again or to recommend it to family or friends. I also found feedback from a middle aged person who said, Something original, "it may have been done before but it should be unique as to not seem too cliché. It would be nice if they could relate to my own situations." As my short film may have been done before or something similar, I still want people to feel that they can relate to it if necessary. To some people it may help express their own feelings and actually help them, to also show they're not alone in their situation. Overall, my audience would be of any age in any situation as it is about a young girls life but her life situations is what attracts the older audience. My audience could be from the ages 12 to 19 and relate to the abusive and bullying that consists within the storyline, or as an older audience they may relate it to their past.